Quotes About Restraint

The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known. It is not an esthetically free and natural style. It is esthetically restrained. Everything is under control. Its value is measured in terms of the skill with which this control is maintained.

Visualizing God's presence not only bestows comfort, but it restrains sinful tendencies.

The reality of God's presence both comforts our hearts and restrains our behavior.

It is important to remember that anytime you feel the need to begin a conversation with the words, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but . . . it's almost always a conversation that shouldn't happen at all. So, if you feel the need to say, I probably shouldn't say this . . . then DON'T! Just hush. That little nudge you are feeling is probably the Holy Spirit saying, Don't go there. You're going to regret the words you're about to speak. Or as King David wrote, Muzzle it! I

Människorna är oändligt glada om man lämnar dem i den situationen att de inte kan förverkliga sina idéer!

Isn't it greatly in my favor that I don't belong here but in jail?

I couldn't any more have touched her then than if she had been my little sister.

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. That is why it is called 'maximum security.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could, she exclaimed bitterly. Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you, said the doctor, pulling a long face. Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking.

I won't say another word -- not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.

She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.

Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Perry says that he feels like going to Priest Pond and knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy. I told him he must not talk like that about my family, and anyhow I don't see how knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy would make her change her opinion about me...(I wonder what daylights are and how you knock them out of people.)

But betray too eager curiosity she would not.

nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.

It's hard enough now, so I won't make it any harder. I want to go out so much—everything seems to be calling to me, 'Anne, Anne, come out to us. Anne, Anne, we want a playmate'—but it's better not. There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

We all enjoyed our turnovers except Sara Ray. She ate hers but she knew she should not have done so. Her mother did not approve of snacks between meals, or of jam turnovers at any time. Once, when Sara was in a brown study, I asked her what she was thinking of. I'm trying to think of something ma hasn't forbid, she answered with a sigh. We

There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that YOUR soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again.